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Artificial Intelligence is the Future for CyberSecurity Vinod Sharma's Blog
This is the second post in "AI role in CyberSecurity" series by #AILabPage, first post is available here It's easy to describe & define Artificial intelligence compare to what actually it is. Now to put it in one liner "AI is kind of intelligence demonstrated by machines to do the same task done by any human using natural intelligence". In other words same task performed by Human with Natural Intelligence and Machine with Artificial Intelligence should produce same results. Speed, quality and productivity are the measuring units here. Cybersecurity protect internet-connected systems, including hardware, software and data, from cyber attacks.
Global AI Governance Group: 'AI Decisions Must Track Back to Someone' Artificial Lawyer
A newly launched AI Global Governance commission (AIGG), tasked with forming links with politicians and governments around the world to help develop and harmonise rules on the use of AI, has suggested that at least one key regulation should be that any decisions made by an AI system'must be tracked back to a person or an organisation'. Although the view was only the early product of meetings yesterday ahead of the AIGG launch event, which is backed by the UK Parliament's APPG AI group and the Big Innovation Centre, it could become something of a standard ethical line for the many legal projects now developing in this area. Earlier this month the Law Society launched its own Public Policy Commission on Algorithms and Justice, for example, one of several AI ethics initiatives around the world. Ensuring that any algorithmic decision is traceable and can be tracked back to a person or organisation could provide society with a greater sense that at least someone is responsible for the actions of an automated system, and that important decisions were not being made in a regulatory vacuum and without any recourse for legal action against a party that caused harm to another. In fact, one could argue that not being able to assign responsibility to the actions of an algorithm would in effect undermine the justice system and put AI's outputs on a par with'an act of nature', i.e. beyond the ability of society to apply rules. The AIGG meeting also stressed that regulators needed to move a lot faster than they are, nationally and globally, because AI technology and its use was now moving a lot faster in terms of its development and actual use in society.
Big Data Conversations
'Insider Threat' is a formidable risk to business because it threatens both customer and employee trust. Accidental or malicious misuse of a firm's most sensitive and valuable data can result in customer identity theft, financial fraud, intellectual property theft, or damage to infrastructure. Because insiders have privileged access to data in order to do their jobs, it's usually quite difficult for security professionals to detect suspicious activity; a process even more challenging to automate (and deploy at scale across the large organisations that most need it) as – so I will suggest – computers fundamentally lack semantic understanding of the meaning of the'bits' they so adroitly process. Conversely, in this talk I will outline a new approach to'Insider Threat' detection that draws inspiration from the Traffic Analysis' of encrypted Axis signal traffic' undertaken at Bletchley Park in WW2. A novel approach that (i) conceives companies as complex autonomous autopoietic entities and (ii) deploys state of art computational analysis of the communication flows that so define the company to flag potentially aberrant employee behaviour; intelligence that can be leveraged to help detect HR problematics before they arise.
Kamikaze drones that are fired from bazooka-like launchers could help US forces hunt enemy UAVs
Kamikaze drones fired from bazooka-like launchers are helping the US military hunt down and destroy lethal enemy drones with deadly precision. The interceptor craft crash into drones to take them down mid-flight and may even carry an explosive charge to bolster their destructive power. They form part of a new weapon system presented at the Pentagon earlier this month that deals specifically with the threat of attacks using shop-bought drones. The system, which can be mounted to an off-road vehicle, also features advanced radar technology and a computer-powered machine-gun. Kamikaze drones fired from bazooka-like launchers could help the US military hunt down and destroy enemy drones.
Neanderthal brains re-created in a lab could one day be put into crab-like ROBOTS
A team of researchers hope lab-grown brains from 550,000-year-old Neanderthals will be able to pilot the movements of a crab-like robot. The unbelievable experiment is using Neanderthal DNA to grow pea-sized brains masses, which are hooked-up to robots to test the capabilities of the electrical signals detected within the tissue. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine are simultaneously growing brain tissue from human DNA to plug into the same crab-like machines. They hope the difference in robot movements achieved by the lab-grown brains of modern man and Neanderthals, who diverged from human beings around 550,000 to 765,000 years ago, will offer vital clues about the minds of our early ancestors. The lab-grown brains cannot achieve conscious thoughts or feelings – but can mimic the basic structure of a developed brain, and reveal key differences in how the nerve cells function.
British doctors go on the defensive due to 'high-performing' 'GP at Hand' app
LONDON – A medical chatbot said to perform as well as or even better than human doctors has sparked a war of words in Britain, in a clash over how much the cash-strapped public health service should rely on artificial intelligence. AI company Babylon, which is already working with the National Health Service, claimed its chatbot scored higher marks than real live doctors in "robust tests." The British firm said it quizzed the AI using sample questions for trainee exams set by Britain's Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the professional body for family doctors. The programmed chatbot, a key feature of Babylon's "GP at Hand" app, scored 81 percent when sitting the test for the first time, while the average pass mark over the past five years for doctors was 72 percent, according to the company. Ali Parsa, its founder who presented the findings in London earlier this week, hailed the results as "a landmark." "(They) take humanity a significant step closer to achieving a world where no one is denied safe and accurate health advice," he said in a statement.
Redefining IT with robot as a service
Such software provides the functionalities required by the specific robotics application in question. Examples include supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), manufacturing execution systems (MES), warehouse control and management systems (WCS/WMS), simulation, offline programming, robot resource/fleet control and management, robot service management, remote monitoring, security, and analytics. Meanwhile, robotics-driven systems integration and related services market refers to the supply, commissioning, operations, and support of integration services needed to support the deployment and operations of robotics systems. Such services typically include consulting, feasibility study, systems integration, training, application management, facility modifications, network design and integration, and so on. As new vendors continue to emerge in the robotics space, the level of competition will inevitably increase.
What's up doc? This AI might know better than your physician - The Financial Express
Babylon Healthcare Services Ltd., the fast-growing mobile medical consultation service, said its artificial intelligence software, in tests, can assess common conditions more accurately than human doctors. London-based Babylon's AI correctly answered 81 percent of diagnostic questions designed to mimic those trainee doctors must answer as part of the Royal College of General Practitioner's exam that must be passed to become a qualified GP doctor in the U.K. The exam is graded on a curve, but over the past five years, the average score trainees needed to pass was 72 percent. Babylon demonstrated this technology publicly for the first time in a live test at an event at London's Royal College of Physicians Wednesday. The company said it would publish the results of its tests online. It's made the AI tool available for free through its app and website in some parts of the U.K., including London, as well as Rwanda.
WEBCA: Weakly-Electric-Fish Bioinspired Cognitive Architecture
Neuroethology has been an active field of study for more than a century now. Out of some of the most interesting species that has been studied so far, weakly electric fish is a fascinating one. It performs communication, echo-location and inter-species detection efficiently with an interesting configuration of sensors, neu-rons and a simple brain. In this paper we propose a cognitive architecture inspired by the way these fishes handle and process information. We believe that it is eas-ier to understand and mimic the neural architectures of a simpler species than that of human. Hence, the proposed architecture is expected to both help research in cognitive robotics and also help understand more complicated brains like that of human beings.
Feeling poorly? The app will see you now
LONDON (Reuters) - London-based Babylon Health says its artificial intelligence technology, in tests, has outperformed most physicians in assessing disease symptoms, throwing down a challenge to doctors, some of whom doubt its true abilities. Babylon, which was founded by entrepreneur Ali Parsa in 2013, is one of a number of start-ups tapping into the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to help patients and doctors sift through symptoms to come up with a diagnosis. It aims to offer health advice of family doctor quality by using AI delivered through a smartphone chatbot app - potentially a big saving for governments as they struggle to fund healthcare for growing and ageing populations. In a representative sample of questions set by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) for its final exams to qualify as a family doctor, the Babylon app achieved an 81 percent success level, well ahead of the average pass mark over the last five years of 72 percent, the company said. But Martin Marshall, vice chairman of the RCGP, said AI systems could not be compared to highly-trained medical professionals.